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Colleague Says Anthrax Numbers Add Up to Unsolved Case
A microbiologist who supervised the work of accused anthrax killer Bruce E. Ivins explained to a National Academy of Sciences panel Thursday why the arithmetic of growing anthrax didn’t add up to Ivins’ mailing deadly spores in fall 2001. “Impossible,” said Dr. Henry S. Heine of a scenario in which…
Man who wanted $999 trillion in abortion ‘damages’ arrested over threats
A Texas law school graduate who sued the US Supreme Court justices demanding $999 trillion for allowing abortion is behind bars after threatening to use deadly force at an abortion clinic. FBI agents arrested Erlyndon Joseph Lo on Saturday afternoon, a day after he filed a rambling request with a…
Anti-health reform caller threatened to kill Sen. Murray
Update at bottom: FBI used anti-reform Astroturf group to catch Murray caller Sarah Palin better hope Charles Alan Wilson isn’t one of her Facebook friends. “A central Washington man was so enraged by the passage of federal health care reform that he threatened to kill U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, prosecutors…
After Watergate, Ford approved warrantless wiretapping inside US
The American public had barely stopped talking about Richard Nixon’s infamous Watergate tapes and his decision to authorize domestic snooping when then-President Gerald R. Ford authorized the FBI to carry out warrantless electronic surveillance inside the United States. A classified memo from the president, dated December 19, 1974, authorized the…
Hoyer: GOP should condemn threats of violence to Democrats
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said several Democrats have received threats of violence in their home districts and he wants leaders within the Republican Party to do something about it.…
Police arrest Frenchman who hacked Obama Twitter page
French police have arrested a hacker who sabotaged the account of US President Barack Obama in one of his attacks on the Twitter online social network, a police source said Wednesday. The unemployed 25-year-old, who used the pseudonym “Hacker Croll,” was arrested in the Puy-de-Dome region of central France after…
FBI in Mexico to investigate US consulate killings
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AFP) – US agents joined a probe into the brazen weekend killings at an American consulate in Mexico’s bloodiest city, highlighting rampant violence that prompted expressions of concern from both governments. Officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrived in violence-plagued Ciudad Juarez to probe the…
Protecting agencies from oversight, Obama threatens to veto intelligence funding
The White House is threatening to veto a key intelligence funding bill over what it considers to be a dangerous amount of oversight on covert agencies, according to published reports. The 2010 Intelligence Budget has gone through a number of key changes over the past few months, with House Democrats…
FBI paid racist shock jock Hal Turner ‘in excess of $100,000′
Turning informant on your fans can be lucrative, if you’re a shock jock by the name of Hal Turner. Amid a trial where Turner faces criminal charges for making threats of violence against public servants, he disclosed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation paid him “in excess of $100,000″ over…
FBI launches probe into schools accused of spying on kids through webcams
Vice-principal used cameras to confront student about drug use: claim The FBI has launched an investigation into a Pennsylvania school district that has been accused of spying on students through webcams on laptops it issued to those students. Lawyers for Harriton High School student Blake Robbins plan to ask a…
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